ELA+Kindergarten+Lesson+17

Topic: Bugs

Common Core Standards RL.K.1-- With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text. RL.K.3-- With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story. RL.K.9-- With prompting and support, compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in familiar stories. RF.K.Ib-- Recognize that spoken words are represented in written language by specific sequences of letters. RF.K 3a-- Demonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-one letter sound correspondences by producing the primary or many of the most frequent sound for each consonant RF.K.3c-- Read common high-frequency words by sight (e.g., the, of, to, you. she. my, is, are, do, does). L.K.Ia-- Print many upper- and lowercase letters. L.K.Ib-- Use frequently occurring nouns and verbs.

Suggested Student Objectives
 * Listen for how a story is read with expression
 * Answer questions about a story
 * Learn some new oral vocabulary
 * Identify words that begin with /g/
 * Learn that the letter Gg stands for /g/
 * Write the letter Gg
 * Dictate a message
 * Blend and read words with g
 * Read high-frequency words: find, this

Suggested Additional Readings My "g" sound box by Jane Belk Moncure Pebble Plus Series: Bugs, bugs, bugs! (Ants, Beatles, Bumble Bees, Butterflies, Dragonflies, Fireflies, Grasshoppers etc) Insectlopedia: poems and paintings by Douglas Florian Miss Spider ABC (series) by David Kirk The Very Quiet Cricket by Eric Carle The Very Clumsy Click Beetle by Eric Carle The Lonely Firefly by Eric Carle Hey Little Ant by Philip and Hannah Hoose Waiting for Wings by Lois Ehlert

Resource Links

PebbleGo.com -> Animals -> Insects and Spiders -> Insects (Grasshoppers)

BookFlix: Bugs! Bugs! Bugs! & A Ladybug Grows Up BookFlix: Termites BookFlix: Waiting for Wings & Butterflies BookFlix: Mosquitoes Book Flix: A Spiderling Growes Up BookFlix: Fly BrainPopJr: Butterflies Tumblebooks Bugs! Bugs! Bugs! Memory Game (you can log in by using the Tumblebooks icon on your desktop) Insect Hunt Draw your own Ladybeetle Insect Coloring Pages

Activities

1. Bug Research! __Materials: __ __Description: __
 * Whiteboard (with sound)
 * Worksheet
 * Pencil and Crayons
 * With PebbleGo  read about Grasshoppers, be sure to look at all the tabs on the bottom of the screen. Sections can be read by clicking on the speaker icon before each passage. Don't forget to look at the video and hear the sound clip.
 * Option 1:
 * Click on the "share what you know" button for the worksheet. Students can dictate (or copy) one favorite grasshopper fact and draw a picture
 * Option 2:
 * Click on the click and label button in the body tab. Students can label a grasshopper.

2. Bugs! Bugs! Bugs! __Materials: __ __Description: __
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Whiteboard (with sound)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">View the fictional story with either Tumblebooks or BookFlix after viewing the story students can take the Tumble Quiz(linked on the right side) together or it can be printed for individuals.

3. Pasta Lifecycle: Butterfly Diagram __Materials:__ __Description:__
 * small circles
 * Cavatelli
 * Shells
 * Bow ties
 * Use pasta to show the life cycle of a butterfly.
 * Use cavatelli for the caterpillar, small circles for the eggs, shells for the chrysalis and bow ties for the butterfly.
 * Glue them onto a piece of construction paper folded into 4 parts.
 * Draw arrows to define the stages of the life cycle. Have students label each phase

Assessments

1. Students will recall 1-3 facts about bugs 2. Students will print facts about bugs

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